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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2749724" data-attributes="member: 307">A nine minute clip drawn from the middle of a movie is a poor judge of dramatic character for a movie. The initial pre-release clip of Fellowship of the Ring (the fight with the cave troll in Moria) was very flat when unmoored from the context of the rest of the film.The biggest thing people should remember is that this is not LotR. About the only thing this story and the LotR story have in common is that they are set in a fantasy environment with some Christian underpinnings. The Narnia books are much more kid-focused than the LotR books, even more so than The Hobbit. They are, effectively, tales written to give kids a basic primer on Christian theology in a manner that they would find enjoyable. That the movie made from the Narnia books feels different than Tolkien's work is unsurprising. That it might seem flat to some is also unsurprising - the story and the style is much more aimed at children than adults.Lions already have an established position in the Narnia stories, as do Leopards (from later books). That leaves Tigers for the bad guys. Just circumstance really.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 2749724, member: 307"] A nine minute clip drawn from the middle of a movie is a poor judge of dramatic character for a movie. The initial pre-release clip of [i]Fellowship of the Ring[/i] (the fight with the cave troll in Moria) was very flat when unmoored from the context of the rest of the film. The biggest thing people should remember is that this is not [i]LotR[/i]. About the only thing this story and the [i]LotR[/i] story have in common is that they are set in a fantasy environment with some Christian underpinnings. The Narnia books are much more kid-focused than the [i]LotR[/i] books, even more so than [i]The Hobbit[/i]. They are, effectively, tales written to give kids a basic primer on Christian theology in a manner that they would find enjoyable. That the movie made from the Narnia books feels different than Tolkien's work is unsurprising. That it might seem flat to some is also unsurprising - the story and the style is much more aimed at children than adults. [i][/i] Lions already have an established position in the Narnia stories, as do Leopards (from later books). That leaves Tigers for the bad guys. Just circumstance really. [/QUOTE]

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